Are We All Pelagians Now?
For many modern followers of Pelagius, getting into Heaven is nothing more than a self-help enterprise, the result of simply willing the good, bypassing the need for grace along the way.
Of all the pesky questions that have arisen over time to bedevil the human intelligence, perhaps the most persisting has been to ask about the twin mysteries of human freedom and divine grace. Just what is the relation between the two? Between, that is, God’s gracious will to redeem and our right to refuse? Such is the “terrifying compliment,” as described by C.S. Lewis, which God has paid…